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How to Navigate Leadership Challenges When Standard Solutions Fail
Manuals assist us in understanding processes, practices, and putting together furniture. They help us in knowing what to do and in what order. They ensure quality results. They give us knowledge, understanding and...
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How to Avoid Burning Out Your Best Employees: Strategies for Sustainable Success
I think about top performers not just as those who are technically competent, or who have a lot of subject matter knowledge….rather about those that are behaviorally outstanding and show emotional adulthood in ways...
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The Time Cost of Overwhelm: How Thoughts and Emotions Impact Leadership Focus
What are thoughts and emotions that cost us time and those that make us time? And what an interesting question to consider. When you step back to think how you are using your time, it can be interesting to note the...
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How Indecision Fuels Stress and Keeps You Stuck
What happens when we can’t decide? Or rather when we don’t. Sometimes our brain derails us, it tells us we’re “stuck”. But this is sadly, a lie. We are choosing inaction. And we must determine why. That’s part...
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Situational Leadership: Lead to Your Employee Needs
Have you been exposed to Situational Leadership? And I don’t just mean, yes I react differently in different situations. Do you know the theory by Ken Blanchard and Paul Hersey? It’s a great one to explore. This...
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Mindfulness for Leaders 101
It's hard to be mindful when we're overwhelmed with info. Its been documented that the human body sends about 11 million bits of information to our brains for processing. Per second. Let that sink in. With all that...
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Emotional Intelligence for Leaders: 4 Practices for Greater Connection
Last episode I talked about the effect EQ has on our careers and lives. I promised to dive into self-awareness and self-management. Because for many, self-awareness doesn’t come easily. We’re not taught it. And...
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Emotional Intelligence for Leaders: Expression & Limiting Beliefs
Lately I’ve been training so much on emotional intelligence, or EQ. Some of it by design, some of it is more organic in conversations that turn to the affect of emotions. And often the question becomes, what “to do”...
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3 Ways to Create Influence as a Leader
Successful leadership requires influence. Without it, how will you make your mark on your organization and your team? Influencing is about engaging others in your vision—helping to build a coalition of support for...
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The Johari Window: Powerful Self Discovery
Are you familiar with the Johari Window? This concept was developed in 1955 by American psychologists Joseph Luft and Harry Ingham. At the core, this tool is about self discovery. This is about your authentic self,...
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The Art of Strategic Questions: 4 Elements to Empower
Asking great questions is an art. Yet how often do we pause to consider our effectiveness in this small leadership skill? In the last few episodes I’ve focused on practices in which asking great questions is...
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Delegation in Leadership: 4 Steps to Start
I went for an off-site planning meeting with one of my remote employees. With so much to discuss, I was excited. However, early on in the meeting her disposition was became uncharacteristically quiet. I grew...
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